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STOVE LEG Filed May 13, 1951 Jerome 2) ea.

Patented July 19, 1932 UNITED STATES JEROME LEE, 0F CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE, ASSIGNOR TO 01 CLEVELAND, TENNESSEE, A FIRM COMPOSED OF AND COOKSEY E. HARDWICK Application filed May 13,

The object of this invention is to provide means whereby a stove leg may be attached to any corner of a stove or range, and the necessity for providing the legs in such manner that each leg will be attachable to a particular corner of the stove will be overcome. According to present practices, it frequently happens that, through irregularities in the formation of the stove, or range, the legs must be provided in pairs of specified relation to each other, so that a leg intended for a front corner cannot be fitted to a rear corner without considerable modification. The result of this condition is that the cost of the stoves is increased and delay in the ultimate presentation of stoves upon the market is experienced. These difficulties are overcome by the use of my invention, which permits any leg to be attached to any corner of the stove or range. The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing and will be hereinafter first fully described and then more particularly defined in the appended claims.

In the annexed drawing,

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a stove leg having the present invention applied thereto,

Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same, and

Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of the attaching plate or bracket.

The stove leg 1 is of a general right angular form, as is usual, and tapers downwardly, any preferred scheme of ornamentation being applied thereto as desired. At its upper end, the stove leg is formed with an inwardly projecting flange 2, as usual, which forms the support upon which the range, indicated at 3 by dotted lines, is placed and is supported. Usually, attaching bolts are inserted through the bottom of the range or a flange thereon and through the flange of the leg, and, frequently, the difficulty hereinbefore mentioned is encountered because the bolt holes in the flange of the leg and the bolt holes in the stove or range will not register. To overcome this condition, I provide an attaching plate or bracket 4 which is of right angular form and is adapted to rest against the bottom of the flange 2 and against the inner surface of the meeting sides of the leg,

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a bolt 5 being inserted through openings provided therefor in the flange of the leg and in the attaching plate at the corner or angle of the same, as shown and as will be understood. The attaching plate has right angular slots 6 formed at intervals in both its branches, the arms of the slots being disposed parallel with the branches or arms of the plate, as clearly shown. The flange 2 of the stove leg is cut away, as shown at 7, at intervals corresponding to the spacing of the slots 6, and these cut away portions or recesses have two of their walls disposed in right angular relation and parallel with the meeting edges of the flange,

so that, when the plate is in position, 'the meeting walls of the several slots will coincide with the right angles of the several notches or recesses in the flange of the stove leg. When the leg is brought into position beneath the range or .stove, it is a very simple matter to adjust the leg, with the attaching plate 4 thereon, in one or another direction until some portion of the respective slots 6 will be disposed in alinement or registry with the bolt holes formed in the stove or range, whereupon the fastening bolts may be readily inserted and secured.

The device of the present invention is obviously very simple and inexpensive and may be easily attache-d to any stove leg and will obviously expedite the assembling of the parts and permit any leg to be attached to any corner of the stove.

Having thus described the invention, I claim:

1. A stove leg provided with an inwardly extending flange at its upper end, and an attaching plate secured to said flange and pro ecting beyond the inner edge thereof and having a plurality of bolt-receiving slots therein through which bolts may be passed to secure the leg to a stove body.

2. The combination with a stove leg having an inwardly projecting flange at its upper end, said flange having notches formed there- I in at intervals, of an attaching plate secured to the under side of the flange and provided with angular slots registering with the notches in the flange.

3. The combination with a stove leg having HAnnwIcK srovncomrAnx,

an inwardly projecting flange at its upper end, said flange extending along the meeting sides of the leg and being provided in its inner edges with notches having walls disposed in right anglar relation, of a right angular attaching plate secured at its corner to said flange and provided at intervals with right angular slots therethrough arranged to register with the meeting walls of the notches in the flange.

' In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

JEROME LEE. [L. 5.] 

